The Stories of #MeToo
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Cat Person
Cat person, the infinite short story that our very own magazine published around the story of a young woman who dates a kind of slightly older deadbeat guy and all that ensues there, was published in December of 2017. Unbelievable. It's pretty shocking. And I'll never forget, first of all, talking about like sense memories, that awful mouth and that photograph will live with me forever. But it was also this in the middle of this huge cultural upheaval, it had the feel and texture of a kind of like testimonial.
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